The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 17

The old man was rather afraid of getting into trouble, but his wife urged him to sell the dog as the boy had bidden him, so he took it up to the castle and sold it to the duke for ten dollars.

Who acts: old man, wife, boy · What happens: be, get, urge, sell, bid, take up · To what, where: trouble, man, dog, boy, castle, duke

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, wife, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 afraid	advmod
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 getting	mark
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 afraid	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 trouble	case
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 getting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 urged	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 urged	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 urged	nsubj
15	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 urged	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sell	mark
18	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 urged	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sell	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 bidden	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bidden	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bidden	aux
25	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sell	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bidden	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 took	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 took	compound:prt
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 castle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 castle	det
35	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sold	cc
37	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sold	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 duke	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 duke	det
41	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sold	obl
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 dollars	case
43	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 dollars	nummod
44	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sold	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man				afraid property	tree rules
2	get	gerund	the old man not said here			trouble		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination
3	urge	past	man's wife		man			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	man's wife not said here	the dog				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
5	bid	past · perfect · passive		the boy				tree rules
6	take up	past	boy	dog		the castle		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to castle=Destination
7	sell	past	boy not said here	dog	the duke		for ten dollars	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to duke=Recipient for dollar=Asset

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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